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Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$475k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Animals$3.8MEnvironment$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MEducation$1.3MInternational$1.0MHuman Services$449kArts & Culture$265kHealth$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$3,150
Median grant
6
States reached
$582k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$150,000
FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC$50,000
THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$40,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$35,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC$35,000
EARTHJUSTICE$20,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$20,000
CORNWALL CONSERVATION TRUST INC$18,000
HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
DOROT INC$15,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS)$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$10,000
SHARON AUDUBON CENTER$5,550
NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $417k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 6%THE AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $50 → 6%ROOM TO GROW: $20k → 20%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 20%THE CHORE SERVICE: $500 → 9%THE CHORE SERVICE: $500 → 9%BORDER CROSSERS: $200 → 17%THE CHORE SERVICE: $500 → 9%CHORE SERVICE INC: $500 → 9%CHORE SERVICE INC: $500 → 9%CHORE SERVICE INC: $500 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $1k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 17%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $3k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 17%SUSAN B ANTHONY: $100 → 9%PROJECT EZRA: $100 → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 17%DOROT: $75k → 17%DOROT: $50k → 17%DOROT: $50k → 17%DOROT INC: $45k → 17%DOROT INC: $30k → 17%DOROT INC: $26k → 17%DOROT: $25k → 17%DOROT INC: $15k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $7k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $3k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 99 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

99 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
88

Total granted

$7.8M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+32%

Still filing today

67%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $490k · revenue +114%
  • R
    RARE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $460k · revenue +2%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • FD
    FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -28%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRD LIF
    one grant, 2019 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
6
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
7
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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10
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
11
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsImmigrant Worker SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library OperationsFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsSenior Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/115
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,645

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 194 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/105
Grantees still filing
81/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $2,551,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND — $1,000,000 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND+128 more — $2,223,984 · Other+128 moreEARTHJUSTICE — $490,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICERARE — $460,000 · EnvironmentRARENATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $355,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SO…HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC — $197,600 · EnvironmentHOUSATONIC VALLEY A…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $150,500 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUB…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $120,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND…+8 more — $63,000 · EnvironmentBARNARD COLLEGE — $405,000 · EducationBARNARD COLL…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationCOLORADO STA…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $262,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $70,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTER…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $45,000 · Education+5 more — $12,200 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $290,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $170,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $160,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $145,000 · International+4 more — $34,300 · InternationalDOROT INC — $316,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $28,000 · Human Services+8 more — $18,050 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $263,500 · AnimalsTune In To Nature org — $36,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $13,500 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATION — $12,000 · Animals+5 more — $10,010 · AnimalsTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $161,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $55,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $11,360 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,774,984Environment$1,836,600Education$1,194,700International$799,300Human Services$417,050Animals$335,510Arts & Culture$227,360

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $490,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRARE — $460,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $405,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $355,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOROT INC — $316,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $290,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $263,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $262,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC — $197,600 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $188,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $170,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $161,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $150,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $45,479 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlotte Hungerford Hospital — $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTune In To Nature org — $36,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornwall Conservation Trust Inc — $23,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $16,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Northwest Connecticut…Berkshire Taconic Com…The Harriet F Dickens…Foundation for Commun…The Connecticut Commu…Mutual of America Fou…The Grace R and Alan …FjcJewish Communal FundCain Brothers Foundat…The Geisser Family Fo…The Hallingby Family …
Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation IncCT32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Harriet F Dickenson Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Foundation for Community Health Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Grace R and Alan D Marcus Foundation · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Cain Brothers Foundation · The Geisser Family Foundation · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital — 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy — 0% of income from government
  • Cornwall Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines